Cotton Breeding Australia joint venture
5 October 2007
Australian cotton growers and researchers are to form a cotton breeding joint venture, Cotton Breeding Australia. CSIRO Plant Industry and Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD) will fund breeding and research for an initial ten-year period.

High yielding and stress-tolerant rice developed
5 October 2007
High-yielding and stress-tolerant rice lines have been produced with the use of an insertion mutagenesis system by scientists from the National University of Singapore and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Vitamin C necessary for plant growth
5 October 2007
The identification of a new enzyme, GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase, which is involved in the production of vitamin C, has allowed scientists from the University of Exeter (UK) and Shimane University (Japan) to engineer plants without the nutrient.

D1 Oils/KeyGene in jatropha biofuel deal
5 October 2007
British biodiesel company D1 Oils (Middlesbrough, Teesside) and Dutch genetic research company KeyGene (Wageningen) are to collaborate on a research project on the oil-yielding tree, jatropha.

More Biotech news

Back to the top